Word: lisi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...MURDER YOUR WIFE. Uxoricidal impulses, batted around with a slapstick by Jack Lemmon as a reluctant husband, Terry-Thomas as his woman-hating Man Friday, and Italy's Virna Lisi as the superfluous lady...
...everyone knows that the tousled blonde with the lynx eyes who emerged slowly and nearly nude from the pasteboard cake at the bachelor party in How to Murder Your Wife is that 27-year-old Italian import, Virna Lisi. Her co-star Jack Lemmon has said: "She's a star. She has it, a real regality"; critics have agreed, and the public is purring contentedly. About the only people not in on the secret are her fellow Romans, who are only now getting to see the film in Italy...
...really the Italians' fault. First of all, La Lisi was a cold brunette when she left their shores. And even after 25 European films, she was best known to them as "La Bocca della Veritd" (The Mouth of Truth), not for her Cassandra-like utterances, but for her TV toothpaste commercials. None of this influenced How to Murder's author, George Axelrod, who wanted some Continental dish for the part and took one look at Virna in a "screen test, a bedroom scene with Lemmon, and cancelled any further auditions...
...MURDER YOUR WIFE. Jack Lemmon wakes up married to a girl in a million (Italy's Virna Lisi) and tries to choose between hearthside and homicide while his woman-hating manservant (Terry-Thomas) offers hilarious household hints...
...MURDER YOUR WIFE. Jack Lemmon wakes up married to a girl in a million (Italian Import Virna Lisi) and tries to choose between hearthside and homicide while his woman-hating manservant (Terry-Thomas) offers hilarious household hints...